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The Outsider Advantage: How Leaders Like Medtronic’s CFO Are Rewriting the Rules of Success

N2Growth Blog

When Fortune highlighted Medtronics appointment of Thierry Piton as CFO, it wasnt just a leadership hiring updateit was a referendum on modern leadership. Consider Fords decision in 2006 to appoint Alan Mulally a Boeing executive with no automotive backgroundas CEO at a time when the company was teetering on collapse.

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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. A few years ago, Ed Whitacre took over as CEO at General Motors even though he had limited experience in the automotive industry. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful.

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Leading Blog

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. Take, for instance, the automotive industry. To decide if “now is the time” for a change, CEOs must watch for three telltale signs.

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The Ecosystem Economy

Leading Blog

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. The borders between sectors are dissolving.

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General Motors layoffs to hit Kansas workers hardest in 2025

HR Digest

The automotive industry is no stranger to turbulence, and General Motors (GM) is once again navigating the choppy waters of layoffs. What the leadership has to say GMs leadership has been transparent about its electrification ambitions. Fairfax, Kansas, a community reliant on GMs presence, might feel the economic squeeze.

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Competing in the Age of AI

Leading Blog

The authors provide case studies from the travel industry to the retail, entertainment, and automotive industries. And this is especially important in a leadership context. This new universality of capability reshapes a variety of operating tasks and reaches into strategy, business design, and even leadership.

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The Truth About Becoming a Great Leader

Leading Blog

Here, McBean shares the importance of leadership: Being a leader sounds like a great thing to be -- and it certainly is. But here is the rub: though the word "leadership" gets tossed around a lot, real, productive leadership is still very uncommon. Sure, leadership can be more complicated than this.